hi all
just a quick question for vb.
ages ago i wrote a routine to cut a chunk out of a window (form) using SetWindowRegion and GetBitmapRegion. It would scan the windows backround pic and make all say, white, pixels dissappear, then it would set the window so that the white was not longer part of it. I now use windows xp and it goes wacko ballistica - it cuts it out but whenever the form is re-painted by windows, it sets the remaining portion of the windows' ackround pic to whatevers beneath it. a cool effect, but it's not what i want.
Does anybody have any ideas or another way to do this?
thanks.

Here's an idea: go back to the insane assylum you escaped from...

LOL
nevermind, i don't need to to do it now anyway.

Probably what's happening is that Windows Explorer has changed the way it repaints itself. Perhaps your program is screwing with the wrong window?

Does your program work on Windows Notepad?